Choosing Democracy

The test results: Lots of numbers, not much light. Sacramento Bee. Aug.29,2007. Peter Schrag has a long history of commenting on public ed...

NEW POLL SHOWS GROWING DISCONTENT WITH "NO CHILD" LAW; PUBLIC ENDORSES REFORMS PROPOSED IN JOINT STATEMENT SIGNED BY 139 NAT'L...

August 27, 2007 With Turnover High, Schools Fight for Teachers By SAM DILLON GREENSBORO, N.C. — The retirement of thousands of baby boomer t...

On the California Progress Report, Supt. Of Instruction O’Connell praises the governor for some of his budget decisions and asks for more mo...

State Exam Results Show that English Learners are English Learners We should not be alarmed to read that “only” 27% of English learners in L...

Peter Schrag in his column in the Sacramento Bee of Aug.22 makes the accurate point that the University of California is the finest universi...

A Foundations Student Speaks on NCLB I just wound up a summer session of my graduate foundations class. This is how one student closed her f...

The end of gentlemanly capitalism Tony Curzon Price The global financial panic triggered by uncertainties in the United States home-loans ma...

Prior post: Rather than facing the inequality issue, major politically imposed school reform efforts stress standardized testing as the driv...

Raiding funds set aside to repair crumbling schools is a shortsighted strategy for plugging holes in the state budget. The borrowing only po...

Schools did not create and can not resolve the racial, class and gender divisions in our society. But, what schools can do is to effect ind...

The Crisis in our Democracy: Sacramento Progressive Forum 1 day : Free Fall October 4, 2007. CSU-Sacramento. University Union All of ...

A Letter from Selected Civil Rights Groups on Multiple Measures August 7, 2007 The Honorable George Miller The Honorable Edward Kennedy...

Nothing Will Happen with NCLB By Gerald Bracey An August 7 Washington Post editorial called a speech by California Rep. George Miller as ...

Whole Hog Early Sunday morning after a marathon session, Congress put a blue ribbon on the immense hog known as the defense budget and decla...

American Liberalism, Education And The Legacy Of The Civil Rights Movement: More On The Cesar Chavez-Charter School Controversy Sherman Dorn...

Changing the Odds for Urban America Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Washington, DC | July 18, 2007 It's been four decades since Bobby Ke...